Texas, USA - Empty wine and beer bottles are finding a new role in the hands of an artistic priest. Father Jairo Lopez hand cuts the bottles into small pieces he will then use in mosaics and he compares his art to his church community. "The colors, textures and materials of a mosaic, that's my parishioners. They are all of different styles, sizes and cultures. The community is one big mosaic," Father Lopez says. His mosaics have "become part of my prayer life, my spirituality."
Marble, tile and granite often keep company with the glass pieces. It is time-consuming work, sometimes taking hundreds of hours to complete a single piece.
Most of his time is taken up with his day job as a priest to St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Marble Falls, Texas, though Tuesdays - his day off - he usually dedicates to mosaic art.
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